Road to VR

APRIL 2, 2018

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 VRDK , a VR headset reference design for hardware and software developers, is now offering 6DOF controller input with ultrasonic tracking.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2018

AMD today launched an updated version of their AMD Radeon Software suite which now includes the ability to stream SteamVR games to standalone and smartphone-based headsets, assuming you have a compatible AMD GPU. But until mobile headsets support the full head/hand 6DOF input that PC VR apps expect, it’s potential is quite niche.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

B y now, you’ve probably heard all about Oculus Quest 2. This follows the chorus that heralded the first Oculus Quest as VR’s savior that could bring the technology to the mainstream. Facebook has already started the multi-staged process of attracting developers to the Oculus platform to build such experiences.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2016

The latest release of Dolphin VR, an impressive Nintendo Gamecube emulator that ads VR functionality to games, adds support for Oculus’ consumer headset the CV1 so now you can play Metroid Prime in VR, with head tracking and have it look better than ever. of Dolphin VR has now been released and it adds Oculus SDK 1.3

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2019

In addition to the new 6DOF controllers, which puts it at input parity with the upcoming $400 Oculus Quest , Vive Focus Plus also boasts better comfort and better visuals over the old design thanks to a slightly updated headstrap and improved Fresnel lenses. Head Tracking : Optical inside-Out. Vive Focus Plus Specs. a/b/g/n/ac.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

WARPOINT: Meta Quest 2s equipped with power banks are waiting their turn All the Meta Quests operate in standalone mode using software developed by WARPOINT themselves. You could even forgo buying brand-new headsets and instead opt for second-hand ones to lower the costs even further. I have strong VR legs, but still felt queasy.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Oculus dropped prices on several VR titles on their store for Thanksgiving with those prices likely to persist through the weekend until Cyber Monday. Space Jones VR – $10 (38% off) – a compelling space shooter, with head-tracked flight controls, weapon upgrades and varied combat. Here’s what’s on offer.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

And they’ll be powered by new GPUs and graphics software that will be almost unrecognizably different from today’s technology. All of this innovation points to a new way of interacting with computers, and this will require not just a new devices or software but an entirely new system for VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

They mostly mimic Oculus Touch in design, with the same general handle shape and same set of buttons, sticks, and triggers. Although coverage is increased, there’s still some tracking deadzones above and below the headset which can sometimes be annoying but never significantly impacted gameplay.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

According to Shawn Nash, the software engineer responsible for implementing VR into iRacing , it was a very close call. “We We ported the support from DX9 into our new DX11 engine which was a large rewrite, but we also had to rewrite other large portions of it to work with the latest Oculus SDK.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

"We are now starting demos, but due to an issue they will be hardware only, not software". What exactly is hardware without software? We saw a series of images and videos displayed across both panels, as if they were a connected monitor, with no head tracking of any sort. But I was unable to try any of this.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

After a slew of slow weeks for Oculus, there are some genuinely interesting and exciting new games for the VR faithful to check out this week. Use head-tracked controls to make your way through mazes and relive some of the glory days of the genre. Vendetta Online VR, from Guild Software. The curse is broken.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy. ” Granted, the technology has changed a great deal since 2014, the same year Oculus Rift DK2 came out.

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AR Insider

JULY 30, 2019

The category is represented best by the $199 Oculus Go and the more recently-launched Quest. Though Oculus Go has a more basic user interface and less sophisticated positional tracking (rotational head tracking versus full-6D spatial movement), it will be a strategic point of entry to a large addressable market.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I mean, on the Oculus Touch you have a middle finger trigger, that is used to grab stuff by closing your hand and the index finger that is used to trigger actions: when you use a VR gun, everything is more or less like in the real world. The Oculus Quest touch controllers: this is how I want manual interface in XR. Should you buy it?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). I am always fascinated when I speak with someone that is here before the Oculus Kickstarter campaign. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Some time ago, it had already released the public specifications for the headset , and so many 3rd party vendors had been able to design and sell their viewers, but now even all the software has been released on GitHub. That is, all the software layer of Cardboard is public domain now. Oculus Link is coming soon.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The game is created by Guild Software and it’s actually been around for a while. Using the Gear VR’s head tracking, you can move your head around inside the cockpit and there is a variety of choices for controlling your ship. on the Oculus Home store. Visit the official website for more details.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 10, 2017

The weight all seems to rest on the bridge of your nose and the end result is a new red mark to rival the infamous Oculus oval. The first is a complete lack of positional tracking. Finally, Pimax headsets do not use OLED displays, instead they have chosen to use software algorithms to aggressively optimize more common LCD screens.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the “world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR.” The software doesn’t have much to do with the camera.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Now, I had imagined this to look and run a little something like vorpX , the third-party software that lets you play games like Skyrim inside your VR headset in full 3D and decoupling head movement from the HUD. Despite being on Vive with two base stations facing me, positional tracking was completely disabled in this mode.

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Upload VR

JUNE 17, 2024

The first VR headset to ship after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014 was the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, using the Note 4 smartphone as its display, processing center, and battery. enjoy a simple head-tracked game like Proton Pulse inside a literal cardboard box – just as you can today on a $3500 Apple Vision Pro.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

link] Catchoom, global innovator in AR and image recognition software solutions is debuting the full suite of its new Visual Shopping solutions. www.ara2z.com Fraunhofer IGD is presenting VisionLib, an AR one-size-fits-all library tracking system designed specifically for enterprise. catchoom.com/.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Whether you just need a decent monitor replacement, or you have grand dreams of using a PC entirely in VR, it’ll be worth trying at least one of these apps, all of which are available on the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift via SteamVR. Virtual Desktop.

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VR Geeks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The vorpx is the software that allows you to play non-VR PC games on Rift or Vive. Whether you have a terrible Steam library (in a good way), youre probably wondering if and how you can play all of your games on your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. From your desktop or Start menu, open the Oculus app. Go to the General tab.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 17, 2017

the position of the screen(s) is fixed and precisely measured during installation, and the viewer’s eye positions are provided via real-time head tracking. Based on that, the software can project 3D objects using one or more projection matrices, depending on whether the projection surface is planar or not. In CAVEs et al.,

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Doc-Ok

DECEMBER 2, 2015

release of the Vrui VR toolkit (it looks like I will have full support for Oculus Rift DK2 just before it is obsoleted by the commercial version, haha), and needed a short break. That was some serious Oculus face. On top of that, the entire idea of a non-head tracked head-mounted movie viewer is flawed.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 30, 2017

This should overall improve head tracking problems we had on Pimax 4K. Even though the price is the same, previous generation product simply did not had the software support which made Pimax 4K tedious to use. Just like Oculus, Pimax now has ‘Brain-warp’ technique.

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This weekend, join your fellow software developers over a three-day marathon with a focus on discovery, gaming, and design apps. Designed for the Oculus Rift and the Leap Motion Controller, a trial build of the 3D space-shooter game Perilous Dimension is now available. Compare Metrics + Leap Motion Hackathon. Register now ».

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Doc-Ok

JUNE 8, 2016

At its core, Chaperone is a combination user interface / software / API system that brings relevant parts of users’ physical environments into their virtual environments. Concretely, during environment setup, users can sketch out the horizontal boundaries of their “play space” by tracing them with a tracked controller.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If you have a newer Android phone and a good gaming computer, it’s possible to prototype, test, and share your VR projects with the world using third-party software like RiftCat’s VRidge. VRidge is software that streams PC VR experiences to your phone via wifi. Install the Leap Motion Orion software. Your VR Prototyping Kit. $63

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Headjack

JANUARY 12, 2015

Shooting in a major soccer stadium is great, but creating an accurate stitching template, with software like PTGui , for a video where nearly half the screen is composed of grass is a mission impossible. This is a massive overkill, since the latest Oculus Rift Crescent Bay edition contains a 1440p display.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn’t exist yet, so you had to make it. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Then you needed software, and the software didn't exist yet, so you had to make it. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and head tracking. Amazon Sumerian.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2021

As for the headset’s optical tracking skills, Lang thought room-scale head-tracking was just as solid as other WMR headsets; some software-induced stutter exists when transitioning between apps or loading screens. The newly redesigned controllers offer acceptable—but not exceptional—latency and jitter.

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